Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages

• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh if we’re doing a guessing game then…

  3 genders technically, though the 3rd one (neuter) is super rare, so it’s basically 2 in practice :3

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That makes it harder. 7 is the limit of Balto-Slavic languages but I know that one Baltic language used to have more, loaned from Estonian or something, but lost them over time. So my guess is your local dialect preserved one? Otherwise I have no clue. I think modern Indo Aryan languages have less, Semitic languages have 2 genders and I don’t know how many cases. I could rule out some more to show off but not much.

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    • TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lithuanian! Im not sure if they were loaned from estonian :3 we used to have 10 (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, illative, allative, adessive, and vocative) allative is basically dead outside of a few words like velniop, adessive is just dead (only really seen in old writings) but illative is the interesting one: it’s not used in standard lithuanian outside of some set phrases (kairėn, dešinėn, and in our anthem vardan), but it’s still used in dzūkija and east aukštaitija, so… Yeah that’s some lore :3

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